Yahoo on Tuesday plans to unveil its revamped home page, aimed at helping the Internet giant fulfill its oft-stated goal of being the Web’s most popular starting point. The biggest change will be on the left-hand menu, which until now featured links to Yahoo’s sites. Now users will be able to chose what appears there, [...]
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Yahoo Launched Search Pad
Yahoo has launched Search Pad beta, a Yahoo Search feature. This new service from Yahoo allows the users to capture, organize, save and share information they find while researching online, claims the company. The new beta feature, called Search Pad, is an attempt to move away from the traditional “single search with 10 blue links” [...]
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Google still high from Bing in search volume
Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) Bing posted higher search-engine growth on a weekly basis in June than its three main rivals, according to online Web site measurement researcher Hitwise, though Google Inc. (GOOG) continued to distance itself from its rivals. Google Inc. captured 74% of the U.S. Internet search market in the four weeks ended June 27, [...]
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Yahoo Releases Delicious Google Chrome Test Version Extension
Yahoo has released a test version of a Delicious social bookmarking extension for Chrome, one of the strongest indications so far that the technology foundation is coming to fruition in Google’s browser. Add-on support, or extensions, as Chrome calls them, has been built-in for a while, but it isn’t turned on by default, as it [...]
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Yahoo Exec Jeff Weiner joins LinkedId as CEO
Six months after joining LinkedIn as interim president, Jeff Weiner has been named chief executive of the business networking site, replacing its founder, Reid Hoffman. Weiner left Yahoo roughly one year ago, amid an executive shake-up undertaken as the Internet giant Yahoo was embroiled in a proxy war with investor Carl Icahn over its refusal [...]
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Microsoft CEO opens to a partnership with Yahoo
Microsoft Corp, the world’s largest software group, is still open to a partnership with search engine giant Yahoo Inc, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. “We remain open to a partnership with Yahoo,” Ballmer told a seminar at the Cannes Lion 2009 advertising festival. Ballmer said he did not know if a deal could [...]
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Microsoft hires Yahoo data center exec
Microsoft Corp. on Monday said it hired a top data center executive Kevin Timmons, from rival Yahoo Inc. The Redmond-based software giant, in a blog post, said it hired Kevin Timmons, who was a vice president of operations at Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc. driving that company’s data center expansion. Timmons, who starts today at the company, [...]
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Yahoo incurs $34M for layoffs
Yahoo Inc. says laying off nearly 700 workers will cost between $30 million and $34 million in severance pay and other related expenses. The layoffs, which affect about 5 percent of Yahoo’s workers worldwide, were announced in April. They were the first significant cuts since Carol Bartz, left, took over as chief executive in January. [...]